Penetration Testing Engineer, MTS
InformaticaBase Salary
$117k - $177k/yr
Responsibilities
- Execute penetration tests across web applications, APIs, cloud and hybrid infrastructure, identity and trust boundaries, and AI/ML-enabled systems.
- Perform manual exploitation, including business logic abuse, privilege escalation, identity and access trust abuse, prompt injection, and AI integration abuse.
- Support engagement scoping, execution, risk assessment, reporting, and remediation guidance.
- Produce technically detailed reports describing exploitation paths, missing controls, mitigation recommendations, and practical impact.
- Collaborate with engineering, AppSec, and Detection & Response teams on security findings.
Requirements
- Require 2–4 years of hands-on experience in penetration testing, offensive security, or application security testing.
- Require experience conducting penetration testing engagements in production or production-like environments using manual techniques and automation or AI tools.
- Require understanding of application security vulnerabilities, attack chains, identity and access control failures, cloud security fundamentals, and AI/LLM security risks.
- Require the ability to clearly explain exploitation mechanics, impact, and remediation to engineering and security teams.
- Preferred experience includes custom scripts, payloads, proof-of-concept development, bug bounty programs, cloud architectures, identity-centric security models, and offensive AI/LLM use.
Benefits
- Benefits include time off programs, medical, dental, vision, mental health support, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, 401(k), and an employee stock purchasing program.
- The stated annual base salary range is $117,200–$176,700, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.
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About Informatica
Informatica (NYSE: INFA), a leader in AI-powered enterprise cloud data management, helps businesses unlock the full value of their data and AI. As data grows in complexity and volume, Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud™ delivers a complete, end-to-end platform with a suite of industry-leading, integrated solutions to connect, manage and unify data across any cloud, hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Powered by CLAIRE® AI, Informatica’s platform integrates natively with all major cloud providers, data warehouses and analytics tools— giving organizations the freedom of choice, avoiding vendor lock-in and delivering better ROI by enabling access to governed data, simplifying operations and scaling with confidence. Trusted by approximately 5,000 customers in nearly 100 countries—including over 80 of the Fortune 100—Informatica is the backbone of platform-agnostic, cloud data-driven transformation. Informatica. Where data and AI come to life.™ Contact: PR@informatica.com